Kuhn Square Baler

Bales have soft-core centers that allow air to circulate and thus prevent spoilage, while the outside is rolled tightly to shed moisture if the bales are left outside. Fortunately, there are also those for us hobby farmers.

Chainsaws & Log Splitters romanlily/Flickr Back in the old days, if you needed to cut your own firewood for fuel, you had to fell a tree using hand tools, saw it by hand into short logs, and split those logs manually using an ax or similar tool.

The crop of wheat or straw must be allowed to grow and mature before harvesting.The wheat or oat crop must be allowed to mature before harvesting begins. In northern states wheat is planted in the late fall and harvest the following summer around July.

“This works well for us but only since finding a responsible baler,” says Ann Helmuth of Rochester, Minn. Is the implement's frame square and its tires in fair condition? Have new safety warning decals been applied?

The light walk-behind equipment lets him work steep slopes and marshy areas he couldn't harvest with a four-wheel tractor. As a general rule of thumb, implement power requirements should not exceed 80 percent of rated tractor power.

However, if a farmer chooses to use only one small tractor, a tractor must be purchased that can use the widest range of attachments possible. Also, when selling these gray market tractors, they are not worth as much.

Shoreline erosion can result in damage to fisheries and recreational areas over time, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website. Water logging hay bales in strategic locations near the shorelines of lakes, rivers or other bodies of water will...

Catch the problem early so you can minimize the damage. Initial symptoms may be yellowing leaves, but as the infection progresses, the watermelons may develop rotted areas similar to belly rot -- sunken, dark spots that appear waterlogged.

While salvaging old bricks from a long-forgotten pile that had evidently been created decades ago, I elected to use one of my old yard carts to transport the bricks to a better location.

Many subcompacts are also equipped with PTOs and three-point hitches, making them much more expandable than smaller models; some even have front-end loaders ! Horsepower: approximately 20 to 25 4.

Rollover Protective Structure Most modern tractors of any significant size and power come equipped with a rollover protection structure to protect the driver from injury in the event that the tractor should roll or flip over.

Horsepower This is a numerical measurement of a tractor's power, and the only one of these tractor terms that doesn't describe a physical aspect of the machine. Implement Also known as an attachment, these work tools, such as loaders, backhoes and mowers,...

The blooms of Japanese morning glories are usually larger, but produced--in my climate at least--in much lower numbers than what purpurea can manage. That combination of chilly temperatures andheavy dew on their large buds causes many of them to tear...

“A dealer of ours sold a man a tractor with a rigid ROPS [a roll-over protection structure],” Sieper says. On tractors with a PTO, the ability to operate implements is critical, so PTO horsepower, or what's left to operate the implements after losses...

The Basics A Forecart: In his book Horse Powered Farming for the 21st Century (Chelsea Green, 2015), Stephen Leslie calls the forecart a “universal joint” that allows horses “to pull and hold back any farm implement that would otherwise hitch to...

Have fun baling! Tags Lists Have Adequate Help In theory, with machines a single person can bay hale. Stay Cool & Hydrated Remember to take care of yourself while baling hay, which means not only exercising caution around the machines, but also looking...

Generally, the larger the model is, the more implements it can operate. A true walk-behind tractor shares the same durable, high-quality design one would expect in a traditional tractor: all-gear drive, automotive-style clutch, commercial gas or diesel...